Jacob Orgen

Jacob "Little Augie" Orgen (January 1893-16 October 1927) was a Jewish-American crime boss and bootlegger during Prohibition in the United States.

Biography
Jacob Orgenstein was born in Austria-Hungary in January 1893 to a Jewish family, and he became a labor slugger under Benjamin Fein after moving to New York City in the United States during the early 1900s. Orgen became rivals with Johnny Spanish and Nathan Kaplan, two fellow gang members, and Orgen was imprisoned on a robbery charge in 1919. While he was in prison, Johnny Spanish was killed by Kaplan, and Orgen decided to confront Kaplan upon leaving prison in 1923; Orgen and his allies Legs Diamond, Louis Buchalter, and Jacob Shapiro had Kaplan murdered. Orgen therefore controlled the garment industry rackets, and he worked with Legs Diamond to move into night clubs and speakeasies. In 1927, Orgen's own lieutenants Buchalter and Shapiro would betray him, gunning him down in a drive-by shooting and wounding Diamond. His death led to a series of wars over control of the garment industry.